by Kathi Kellenberger, Scott Shaw
Beginning T-SQL is a performance-oriented introduction to the T-SQL language underlying the Microsoft SQL Server database engine. T-SQL is essential in writing SQL statements to get data into and out of a database. T-SQL is the foundation for business logic embedded in the database in the form of stored procedures and functions. Beginning T-SQL starts you on the path to mastering T-SQL, with an emphasis on ...
Price: $44.48 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
FREE EBOOK - Cloud Design Patterns
by Alex Homer, John Sharp, Larry Brader, Masashi Narumoto, Trent Swanson
Cloud applications have a unique set of characteristics. They run on commodity hardware, provide services to untrusted users, and deal with unpredictable workloads. These factors impose a range of problems that you, as a designer or developer, need to resolve. Your applications must be resilient so that they can recover from failures, secure to protect services from malicious attacks, and elastic in order t...
Price: $40.18 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2014
Mastering System Center Configuration Manager 
by Vangel Krstevski
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager is a powerful system management product that helps IT administrators perform better asset and organization management by grouping them into logical containers. These logical containers allow you to perform application deployments and software and security updates in no time.Mastering System Center Configuration Manager explains the Configuration Manager architec...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by Bruce Johnson
Windows Azure Mobile Services (WAMS) is a turn-key backend solution for applications, mobile or otherwise, to utilize structured storage in the cloud. It includes basic data access functionality and built-in authentication with Microsoft Account, Facebook, Twitter and Google, as well as push notification to the client app. This compact, to the point book gives you just what you need to get up and running wi...
Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2013
Windows Azure and ASP.NET MVC Migration
by Benjamin Perkins
When IIS6 and Windows Server 2003 are no longer supported, you?ll need to migrate websites currently hosted on these technologies to newer technologies. This book comes to the rescue. It's packed with all the steps you need - all intertwined with real-world examples - to perform the migration of IIS6 and Windows Server 2003 websites to Windows Azure.Windows Azure and ASP.NET MVC Migration is a must-hav...
Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2013
by James Chambers
If you're looking for a straightforward, practical guide to get Azure websites up and running, then this is the book for you. This to-the-point guide provides you with the tools you need to move and maintain a website in the cloud. You'll discover the features that most affect developers and learn how they can be leveraged to work to your advantage. Accompanying projects enhance your learning expe...
Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2013
Cloud Management with App Controller
by Yung Chou, Keith Mayer, Mitch Tulloch
This book serves as an introduction to implementing and managing the hybrid computing solutions using App Controller. It describes the basic concepts, processes, and operations involved in connecting, consuming, and managing resources that are deployed both on and off premises. Each chapter provides a concise, self-contained walkthrough for a specific aspect of managing private, public, and hybrid clouds us...
Price: $9.25 | Publisher: Microsoft Press | Release: 2013
by Danny Garber, Jamal Malik, Adam Fazio
Serving as a critical resource for anyone responsible for strategizing, architecting, implementing or managing a cloud infrastructure, this book helps you understand what is hybrid IT and how it's applicable (and inevitable) in today's world of emerging cloud. The team of authors focus on the Microsoft concept of a private/public cloud, deploying a private cloud fabric, deploying services, and bui...
Publisher: Wrox | Release: 2013
by Lori Lalonde, David R. Totzke
Windows Phone 8 Recipes is a problem-solution based guide to the Windows Phone 8 platform. Recipes are grouped according to features of the platform and ways of interacting with the device. Solutions are given in C# and XAML, so you can take your existing .NET skills and apply them to this exciting new venture.The book starts by guiding you through the setup of your development environment, including links ...
Price: $49.09 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
BizTalk 2013 Recipes, 2nd Edition
by Mark Beckner, Kishore Dharanikota
BizTalk 2013 Recipes provides ready-made solutions to BizTalk Server 2013 developers. The recipes in the book save you the effort of developing your own solutions to common problems that have been solved many times over. The solutions demonstrate sound practice, the result of hard-earned wisdom by those who have gone before.Presented in a step-by-step format with clear code examples and explanations, the so...
Price: $55.27 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013